Tips from The Cascade Team Agents

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By Garret Stembridge | Manilla.com

 

 

Hundreds of dollars are leaking out of your home each year if your house isn’t properly insulated. Fortunately, it doesn’t take much to reduce both your power bill and your carbon footprint. Here are a few simple and sustainable steps to keep air in your house and money in your pocket.

Testing for leaks

Before you begin fixing the areas of your home that are leaking air, you’ll need to know where they are. Here are several ways to find them yourself before you resort to calling a contractor.

Hand and candle tests

Go outside on a cold day and walk around your house, holding out your hand to feel for drafts of air. Check all doors, windows, and…

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Welcome to The Cascade Team’s on-line vendor directory. The business found here are used and trusted by our local agents and/or their clients. You can search and find everything from Handyman, Escrow, Financial, Roofing Services, Landscapers and more. 

If you know of a great local business that we should add to our Vendor Directory at The Cascade Team Real Estate Please let us know or you can add your business here yourself! Your submissions are greatly appreciated and help our Agents/Brokers and our friends and clients searching for services.

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These options may help buyers and sellers avoid lawsuits over contract breaches.

September 2013 | By Jonathan A. Goodman    

Your client has put up $5,000 in earnest money and entered into a contract to buy a house, but despite her best efforts, she’s unable to secure financing. Citing this loan contingency, she exercises her right to terminate the contract and recoup her earnest money, but the escrow agent can’t release the funds because the seller—in clear violation of the terms of the agreement—refuses to acknowledge contract -termination.

It would be nice to hope for a lightning bolt of common sense to strike someone whenever he or she so clearly breaches a contract, but the reality is…

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This was a great class for our Brokers to learn of additional tools beyond Realist and the NWMLS for finding information on properties. This is a great class for both new and experienced agents and there are some great tips, tools and advice to be had.

Discover in-depth Online Property Information Resources

Wednesday October 9th 10am to 11am at

The Cascade Teams Main Office on Gilman

1 Hour Class to learn about hidden property information resources

Come to our one hour class on the Property Information resources that are available to you including:

1.      Fidelity Passport – an online property information tool available 24/7 that allows you to search by Name, Address and Parcel number and create…

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Author:ProfessorBaron.com

The more things change, the more things stay the same. This popular adage is definitely not true when it comes to the amount of paperwork involved in buying a home!

To understand how things have changed, we need to compare the past to the present. Luckily my father is very organized and has his entire file of documents from when he bought the family house almost 45 years ago in Virginia. More recently, when he made what he calls his “final” property purchase, he couldn’t believe the stack of paperwork involved in the purchase.

Here’s a comparison of the amount of paperwork involved with a home purchase “then” and “now,” along with brief descriptions of the voluminous stack of documents…

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Contact Janet Jolly-Porter: janet@TheCascadeTeam.com 425-830-6743 to set up your appointment to learn more.

The Responsive web design from http://www.thecascadeteam.com/ will resize and reformat page content in response to screen size and resolution. In short, our responsive website is one that looks good and performs well on traditional computers, tablets and smartphone. Its one size fits all -- no separate mobile version required!

If you consider that many potential buyers may start their home search on their laptop and then switch to their smartphone throughout the course of the day, it's only logical to make sure they have the same user-experience from one screen to the other. Having a separate mobile site -- that usually has less…

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The news is not in. The Jobs Report for September was not reported as normal last week due to the government shutdown, and could be the first of several key reports delayed.

                        The government shutdown has had a wide-reaching impact on many people and services across the country. But it could soon take a backseat to the looming October 17 deadline for the debt ceiling.

What is the debt ceiling? The debt limit, currently at $16.7 trillion, is the total amount of money that the United States government is authorized to borrow to meet its existing legal obligations, including Social Security and Medicare benefits, military salaries, interest on the national debt, tax refunds, and other payments. The…

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  • Homes prices start to fall slightly or sale stall in certain areas.

  • Leander's facing challenges with Government shutdown.

  • Uncertainty prevails.

  • Yearly prices are up 12% BUT some gains could start to slide over the next few months.

  • KIRKLAND, Wash. (Oct. 4, 2013) – September tested the housing market’s resilience around Western Washington with fluctuating mortgage rates, record-setting rains, and persistent inventory shortages in some areas. By month’s end, however, both pending and closed sales outgained the same period a year ago, according to the latest figures from Northwest Multiple Listing Service.

  • Prices also increased compared to 12 months ago, but fell slightly from…

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TCT Premiere provides a premium, full service experience by executing on a marketing plan for your home that is technologically rich, highly responsive. We leverage industry leading, cutting edge tools to provide the most exposure possible for your most prized asset, utilizing them to increase the communication and service to you.

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Our local luxury real estate specialists are market experts and possess the specific market knowledge to both price and market your home effectively. We pride ourselves on living and working in the communities in which we serve. Empowered by one of the first responsive web sites in the industry, our technology and our experienced real estate team is…

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The first steps in selling your home are always the most important! And this is where The Cascade Team sets ourselves apart.

  • Ask for a Free Home Evaluation: A well-priced home will generate competing offers and drive up the final sale value. Our free market analysis takes into account the most actively searched prices and home values in the area and provides you with a detailed evaluation that puts it all in perspective.
  • Sell Your Home with a Local Real Estate Agent: Our tried and true marketing plan will take the guesswork out of selling your home.  The Cascade Team brokers use a combination of neighborhood-specific knowledge and the latest market analysis technology to provide you with the most accurate…

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